Amyl & The Sniffers have issued a pointed assertion of solidarity with Bob Vylan and Kneecap within the wake of rising media backlash surrounding the artists’ pro-Palestinian messages at Glastonbury 2025, accusing the press of misrepresenting what they are saying was a festival-wide stance.
Posting to Instagram Tales on Monday (July 1), the Australian punk rock band criticized the British media’s “frenzy” over choose units that included political speech, particularly focusing on how protection framed Bob Vylan and Kneecap as outliers.
“The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap however artists all weekend at Glastonbury from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs spoke up onstage and there have been toned of flags on each streamed set,” the band wrote. “Attempting to make it seem like simply a few remoted incidents and a few ‘unhealthy bands’ so it seems the general public isn’t as anti-genocide as it’s, and making an attempt to make it seem like Bob and Kneecap are one-offs, as an alternative of that the established order has shifted majorly and that individuals are involved and determined for our governments to pay attention.”
They continued: “And in case you don’t need politics in music don’t blame the musicians, blame the politicians and journalists, and the political panorama basically, for not doing their job, and there’ll be an increasing number of of [this] till it stops.”
The assertion follows Bob Vylan’s controversial efficiency at Glastonbury, throughout which the punk-rap duo led chants condemning the Israeli Protection Forces. The BBC later confirmed it “ought to have pulled” the livestream and didn’t re-air the efficiency. Irish rap group Kneecap, who adopted Vylan on the West Holts stage, waved Palestinian flags and made their very own statements throughout their set.
Amyl & The Sniffers — who additionally carried out on the competition — delivered a politically charged set of their very own. Throughout a passionate second onstage, frontwoman Amy Taylor used the platform to debate colonization, Australia’s remedy of Indigenous folks, and the significance of political expression. “They need us to close the f–ok up,” Taylor mentioned to the gang. “As a result of if we take into consideration Palestine, then again dwelling in Australia, we take into consideration the Indigenous folks there… and that’s disgusting.”
Their feedback have been met with roaring applause, and clips of the speech circulated broadly on-line — although notably, they didn’t entice the identical stage of media criticism as Bob Vylan or Kneecap.
Glastonbury 2025 noticed a big wave of political statements from artists throughout genres, with Palestinian flags seen at almost each main stage. Acts from the pop, punk, indie, and dance scenes voiced solidarity, many calling out what they see as governmental inaction and media silence on the continuing battle in Gaza.
Amyl & The Sniffers’ assertion provides to the rising refrain of artists utilizing their platforms to talk out, echoing a shift in dwell music the place competition levels have more and more change into autos for protest and visibility. The band’s message is evident: they stand behind artists who communicate up — and gained’t again down from the battle for accountability and consciousness.
